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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 105. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. South wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
In Court: A plea hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in the case of Zachary Tuohey, who is on probation for four years for aggravated stalking, but faces two years in prison on a probation violation, absent a an alternative treatment plan. See: “On Probation for Aggravated Stalking, Zachary Tuohey Kept Trying Judge’s Patience. He Now Risks 2 Years in Prison,” and “A Furious Judge Puts 34-Year-Old Suspect and His Family ‘On Notice’ in Bizarre Aggravated Stalking Case.”
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
The Flagler County School Board holds a special 1 p.m. meeting on board policies at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here. The council discusses its general fund budget this evening. Last week, a circuit court judge ruled against Mayor Mike Norris‘s lawsuit seeking to boot Council member Charles Gambaro off the council.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Byblos: The postman brought the first volume of the Library of America’s Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One: 1876-1919. The second volume covers 1876 to 1976, the kind of time span that will probably get both volumes banned from Florida schools and military academies’ libraries. The set is edited by Tina Steptoe, associate professor of history at the University of Arizona and the author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (2015). From LOA’s summary: “Bringing together speeches, pamphlets, journalism, legal opinions, congressional testimony, and poems by writers both famous and less well known, this first of two volumes opens with Frederick Douglass’s impassioned 1876 call to preserve voting rights for freedmen and culminates with W. A. Domingo’s defiant annunciation of “the New Negro” during the violent “Red Summer” of 1919. Along the way readers encounter Ida B. Wells exposing the horrors of lynching and the lies used to justify it; Mary Church Terrell denouncing the cruelty of the convict labor system; and William Monroe Trotter dramatically confronting Woodrow Wilson in the White House over segregation in the federal workforce. Here too are disturbing expressions of white supremacy by Harvard paleontologist Nathaniel S. Shaler and South Carolina politician Benjamin Tillman, as well as incendiary newspaper articles that sparked a violent coup by white mobs in Wilmington, North Carolina, in November 1898. Editorials from the Black and white press offer contrasting perspectives on two Black figures whose acts of defiance became flashpoints: the notorious Robert Charles, who killed four white police officers in New Orleans before being himself shot to death after a citywide manhunt in 1900, and heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who defeated James Jeffries, “the Great White Hope,” in 1910. Here’s a usefully complete table of contents for volume one, and for volume two.
—P.T.
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July 2025
Tourist Development Council Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
One-Stop Help Night on Range of Social, Medical and Legal Services at Flagler Cares
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Concert Series
August 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
For the full calendar, go here.
The concert was unique in many respects. Some of the leading white citizens sat in evening dress in seats next to some of our highly respectable colored citizens, who were also in evening clothes. No color line was drawn in any part of the house, both white and colored occupying boxes. Carnegie Hall was packed to the doors with members of both races and hundreds were turned away. Yet no calamity occurred because the colored citizens were not segregated in certain parts of the house as some of our theatre managers think it necessary to do, despite laws forbidding discrimination. And it should not be overlooked that the whites present represented the best element of their race; so did the colored people in attendance. Many white composers and writers do their best to disparage syncopated music, commonly known as ragtime, and do their utmost to show wherein this brand of music does not even merit passing consideration. Yet I noticed that not until the Clef Club had played “Panama” did the audience evince more than ordinary interest. White men and women then looked at each other and smiled, while one lady seated in a prominent box began to beat time industriously with her right hand, which was covered with many costly gems. It was then that after a brief mental soliloquy I was forced to conclude that despite the adverse criticism of many who are unable to play it that syncopation is truly a native product—a style of music of which the Negro is originator, but which is generally popular with all Americans.
–From “Concert at Carnegie Hall” by Lester A. Walton, The New York Age, May 9, 1912, in Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One: 1876-1919 (2024).
Dennis C Rathsam says
What we need here is a little of the real TRUTH! TRUMP cut the National Weather Service 10%! To blame TRUMP for the most deadliest flood in 100 years, is what sic democrates, crying for some kind of win, against TRUMP! Texas county wouldn’t spend the million bucks for an alert system. Dems pointing the finger at TRUMP before they new the truth. You see the narratives are irresistible for TRUMP haters, Pierre, their partisans, and all the fake news outlets! This is a tragity, & I pray for all these kids & there families. TRUMP is responsible for many things, WEATHER….. is not one of them!
Sherry says
“IT’S OUR COUNTRY”! Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport! A must read from Robert Reich:
Friends,
Never before in American history, not even in wartime, has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
Yesterday he sent ICE agents and National Guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles. He is also sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid ICE.
Where will he next direct ICE, National Guard, and active duty military? He isn’t saying. But it’s our country.
He has targeted undocumented agricultural and hospitality workers for arrest and deportation, after saying he would not do so. What’s the policy here? He isn’t telling us. But it’s our country.
Meanwhile, he said yesterday that he’d subject imports from Japan, South Korea, and a dozen other nations to new 25 percent tariffs — which will, of course, translate into additional taxes on American consumers — effective August 1.
He threatened to impose even higher tariff-taxes on countries that align with BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) after that group expressed “serious concerns” over any country imposing unilateral tariffs.
I remember a time when American presidents had to go to Congress to impose tariffs. How can he tax us without our consent? It’s our country.
He is consulting with Benjamin Netanyahu about the next stage of the war with Iran, but not consulting Congress, yet it’s our country.
He is targeting universities that he believes haven’t adequately eliminated DEI, or have allowed transgender athletes to compete, or failed to stop demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza. Last week, his regime forced a major university president to resign.
Which universities are next, and for what reason? He isn’t saying, even though it’s our country.
He intends to go after more law firms and media companies that have crossed him. But which, and why?
Will he let TikTok continue to function in the United States even though Congress has passed a law prohibiting it? He hasn’t said.
He says it’s all a “bargaining strategy” to make better deals. But deals for whom?
Rubbish. It’s not a bargaining strategy. He doing all this because he loves to display his power. He relishes it when powerful people plead with him, prostrate themselves before him, beg him, and submit to his whims. He delights in changing his mind and keeping everyone else guessing.
Some who seek his favor are pouring money into TV ads for his eyes only in West Palm Beach, where he resides at Mar-a-Lago (according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of advertising data).
Some who seek his favor are buying his crypto coins.
Some are sending him lavish jet airplanes.
Some who seek his favor are speaking publicly of his brilliance, his insight, his daring. They talk of putting his face on Mount Rushmore.
Many are afraid to criticize him.
This, my friends, is called a dictatorship.
The chief executive of a democracy doesn’t say — as Trump did recently — “I may or may not, nobody knows what I’ll do.” The chief executive of a democracy doesn’t say this because power in a democracy belongs to the people.
This is why Congress enacted a War Powers Act, so presidents have to gain Congress’s consent before sending the United States to war.
It’s why the Constitution gives Congress the power to set the terms of international trade, including tariffs.
Why the Constitution gives Congress the power to appropriate funds.
Why laws bar a president from sending active military troops into a state without the permission of the state’s governor.
And why there’s no basis in law or the Constitution for a president to single out specific law firms, universities, or media companies for penalties because they have angered him.
So how do we take our democracy back?
The federal courts are playing a crucial role. Across America, judges — appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents — are stopping the tinpot dictator from taking over entirely. They deserve our gratitude.
But you and and I are playing the most critical roles — marching, organizing, demonstrating, boycotting, demanding, supporting leaders who stand up to him and criticizing those who won’t.
It may seem like months ago, but on June 14, some 6 million of us protested against him — the largest civil demonstration in American history. It showed the power of the people. It gave many of us hope.
We must follow that extraordinary event by an even larger nationwide demonstration on July 17, Good Trouble Lives On Day.
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all.
On July 17, we must DOUBLE the number of us who turned out June 14. Because it’s our country.
And we must also appear in town halls that any Republican senators and representatives are holding, to tell them we refuse to live in a dictatorship. And tell them that we’re going to make sure they aren’t reelected.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Sherry says
ICE is now the Extremely Expensive GESTAPO!
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Masked, unidentified agents have been “systematically” cornering brown-skinned people in a show of force across Southern California, tackling those who attempt to leave, arresting them without probable cause and then placing them in “dungeon-like” conditions without access to lawyers, a federal lawsuit alleges.
The report continues:
The lawsuit filed Wednesday by immigrant rights groups against the Trump administration describes the region as “under siege” by agents, some dressed in military-style clothing and carrying out “indiscriminate immigration raids flooding street corners, bus stops, parking lots, agricultural sites, day laborer corners.” It seeks to block the administration’s “ongoing pattern and practice of flouting the Constitution and federal law” during immigration raids in the L.A. area.
And if things have not been horrifying enough, DHS is about to morph into an even more monstrous operation that will bring America that much closer to a police state. Under the morally repugnant reconciliation bill, taxpayers will be spending “$170 billion for immigration- and border enforcement-related funding provisions.” That includes $45B (a 265% increase in ICE’s detention budget) and “$29.9 billion toward ICE’s enforcement and deportation operations, increasing ICE’s annual budget three-fold.”
Ray W, says
Before the crash of the Chinese real estate market, home and apartment builders had started a trend of paying suppliers with short-term promises to pay debt, instead of paying cash. As an Associated Press reporter wrote: “It worked until it didn’t.” Thence came the Evergreen crash, from which the Chinese economy has yet to fully recover. Suppliers were left holding worthless promises to pay.
Much more recently, amid the intense price wars raging in the Chinese EV marketplace, car makers have been taking to paying their suppliers with short-term debt, instead of cash. The Chinese government just stepped in and mandated that car makers must pay suppliers in cash within 60 days of due date.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Industry journal after industry journal, the song remains the same. The Chinese car making universe is too big right now. Too many factories and too many car companies. Some say 129 companies still make personal transport vehicles. Some say a winnowing will reduce that number to as low as seven by 2030, others say 10, and I have read of one saying 20.
Chinese companies are struggling to establish export markets where prices are less competitive and opportunities for profit more likely.
Some companies are growing their sales rapidly. For the first six months of this year, BYD sold 2.1 million units, up 31% over the first six months of 2024. BYD exports, too, grew rapidly to 464,000 units, more than double that figure from last year. BYD is still turning a profit, but the industry overall is under stress. The Chinese industry created a word for we used to call the rat race, meaning unnecessary competition: Involution, which means competition that leads nowhere.